Gina Kolata

Gina Kolata

Gina Kolata (born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 25, 1948) is a science journalist for "The New York Times". Her sister was the environmental activist Judi Bari, and her mother was the mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari.

Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. She started working for "The New York Times" in the 1980s. She is a "self-proclaimed exercise addict (who thinks nothing of a 100-mile bike ride as a reward)" according to a "Times" advertisement for itself. [Advertising supplement (with no title, but part of the "These Times Demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the supplement's back page) to "The New York Times", October 31, 2006, page ZK7 of the supplement]

Books

*"Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead", ISBN 0-688-16634-2
*"Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It", ISBN 0-7432-0398-4
*"Sex in America: A Definitive Survey", ISBN 0-316-07524-8 (out of print)
*"The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine", ISBN 0-440-21011-9 (out of print)
*"Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise", ISBN 0-374-20477-2
*cite book |title=Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss - and the myths and realities of dieting |publisher=Picador |location= |year=2007 |pages= |isbn=0-312-42785-9

Notes

External links

* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/index.html Recent and archived news articles by Gina Kolata] of "The New York Times".
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gina_Kolata Sourcewatch article on Gina Kolata]
* [http://www.rethinkingthin.com Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata, Official Book site]


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